I have noticed that over the course of developing a relationship with real estate managers, you'll be able to come to understand that, in each and every real estate financial transaction, a commission amount is paid. In the long run, FSBO sellers never "save" the commission. Rather, they try to earn the commission by way of doing a agent's task. In doing this, they spend their money in addition to time to complete, as best they're able to, the duties of an broker. Those obligations include revealing the home by way of marketing, showing the home to willing buyers, building a sense of buyer desperation in order to make prompt an offer, making arrangement for home inspections, controlling qualification check ups with the bank, supervising repairs, and facilitating the closing of the deal.